We sat down with Yuliana Shemetovets, the face of a group of anonymous political hackers who have been targeting the Belarusian authorities since 2020
Yuliana Shemetovets was in New York when large-scale anti-Lukashenko protests broke out in Belarus in August 2020, when she received an unusual offer: to become the spokesperson for a group of hackers who had exposed state brutality against protestors.
“In those days, the regime was detaining some active and popular opposition leaders, but mainly let others be in opposition without severe repressions,” she added. Unwilling to be recruited into the foreign affairs ministry, a path many of her fellow faculty students pursued, she left to study abroad.
“When I first heard about protests that finally started in my homeland [in 2020] I naturally wanted to come back and support people but because of covid and some other restrictions I couldn’t do it,” Shemetovets says. Many people in her inner circle were detained and are still in prison.
It’s easy to see why Shemetovets was picked for the job: unimposing but confident in her manner of speaking, her oversized glasses, tight hair bun, and casual linen shirt striking the right balance of hip and stern.
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